linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] psi: get poll_work to run when calling poll syscall next time

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Date:   Fri, 2 Aug 2019 14:20:26 +0800
From:   Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     hannes@...xchg.org, surenb@...gle.com
Cc:     dennis@...nel.org, mingo@...hat.com, axboe@...nel.dk,
        lizefan@...wei.com, peterz@...radead.org, tj@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, caspar@...ux.alibaba.com,
        joseph.qi@...ux.alibaba.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] psi: get poll_work to run when calling poll syscall
 next time

Hi all,

According to the reviews from Johoannes, I've changed the old patch and 
then submitted the version 2 patch a few days ago.

Please let me know if all this sounds good, or if there are any issues.

Thanks,
Jason

On 2019/7/30 下午1:16, Jason Xing wrote:
> Only when calling the poll syscall the first time can user
> receive POLLPRI correctly. After that, user always fails to
> acquire the event signal.
> 
> Reproduce case:
> 1. Get the monitor code in Documentation/accounting/psi.txt
> 2. Run it, and wait for the event triggered.
> 3. Kill and restart the process.
> 
> If the user doesn't kill the monitor process, it seems the
> poll_work works fine. After killing and restarting the monitor,
> the poll_work in kernel will never run again due to the wrong
> value of poll_scheduled. Therefore, we should reset the value
> as group_init() does after the last trigger is destroyed.
> 
> [PATCH V2]
> In the patch v2, I put the atomic_set(&group->poll_scheduled, 0);
> into the right place.
> Here I quoted from Johannes as the best explaination:
> "The question is why we can end up with poll_scheduled = 1 but the work
> not running (which would reset it to 0). And the answer is because the
> scheduling side sees group->poll_kworker under RCU protection and then
> schedules it, but here we cancel the work and destroy the worker. The
> cancel needs to pair with resetting the poll_scheduled flag."
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Reviewed-by: Caspar Zhang <caspar@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> ---
>   kernel/sched/psi.c | 7 +++++++
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/psi.c b/kernel/sched/psi.c
> index 7acc632..acdada0 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/psi.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/psi.c
> @@ -1131,7 +1131,14 @@ static void psi_trigger_destroy(struct kref *ref)
>   	 * deadlock while waiting for psi_poll_work to acquire trigger_lock
>   	 */
>   	if (kworker_to_destroy) {
> +		/*
> +		 * After the RCU grace period has expired, the worker
> +		 * can no longer be found through group->poll_kworker.
> +		 * But it might have been already scheduled before
> +		 * that - deschedule it cleanly before destroying it.
> +		 */
>   		kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync(&group->poll_work);
> +		atomic_set(&group->poll_scheduled, 0);
>   		kthread_destroy_worker(kworker_to_destroy);
>   	}
>   	kfree(t);
>